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French Actresses – Check Out The 10 Most Popular And The Best

Muna by Muna
June 30, 2020
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French actresses do not only bring beauty and grace to the screen, they also have the talent and every other thing that one may be looking for in a world class movie star. That is the reason why they have become very popular not only in France, but around the whole world.

Many of these French actresses have appeared in many Hollywood movies including James Bond movies, stunning movie lover with their grace and poise. Let’s meet some of the most famous among them.

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  • Who Are The Most Famous French Actresses?
    • 1. Catherine Deneuve
    • 2. Marion Cotillard
    • 3. Lea Seydoux
    • 4. Melanie Laurent
    • 5. Sophie Marceau
    • 6. Eva Green
    • 7. Charlotte Gainsbourg
    • 8. Brigitte Bardot
    • 9. Audrey Tautou
    • 10. Laetitia Casta

Who Are The Most Famous French Actresses?

1. Catherine Deneuve

French actresses
Catherine Deneuve

Born on 22 October 1943, Catherine is one of the most popular French actresses. She has received a Cesar’s for best actress and was also nominated for an Oscar. At the age of thirteen, she acted in Les parapluies de Cherbourg with her sister Francoise and through this, producers were impressed and started calling her for roles in their movies. She has worked with producers like Francois Trauffaut and Roman Polanski.

Although she restricted herself to only French produced movies at that time, she became famous internationally when she became the Vice-president of the Cannes festival. The actress has appeared in many movies such as Le Sauvage, Le Dernier metro, Ma saison préférée, On My Way, and In the Courtyard.

Catherine Deneuve has a net worth of $75 million.

2. Marion Cotillard

Frech actresses
Marion Cotillard

Marion Cotillard was born the 30th day of September 1975 in Paris, France. She is one of the most talented French Actresses who is also a Musician, Singer, and Songwriter.

She became famous after a role she played in a successful international film “La Vie en Rose” in 2007. She also started and acted in over 50 films which earned her a whopping 76 awards plus 112 nominations for her exceptional roles and performances. She bagged the following awards: Academy Awards, Golden Globes, BAFTA Awards, Cannes Film Festival, and so many others.

More so, in 2014, she became the most Bankable French Actress of the 21st century. She has a net worth of $40 million.

3. Lea Seydoux

French actresses
Lea Seydoux

The beautiful Lea Seydoux was born in 1985 in Paris. Initially, she wanted to be an opera singer, instead, she took the decision and become an actress at the age of eighteen. She enrolled in the Enfants Terrible drama school and the Actors Studio in New York in 2007 for her drama courses.

She is famous for roles in movies such as the James Bond movie series The Spectre, Blue is the Warmest Color, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Inglorious Bastards, Beauty and the Beast, and Midnight in Paris.

Seydoux has won many awards including the Cabourg Romantic Film Festival, Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards, and International Online Cinema Awards and she was nominated for many others including Gold Derby Awards and BAFTA Awards. She has a net worth that is estimated at $5 million.

4. Melanie Laurent

Frencn actresses
Melanie Laurent

Melanie is often seen as one of the most successful actresses, singer, screenwriter, and director in the French film industry. She was born on 21 February 1983 in Paris, France. She began her acting career earlier at the age sixteen where she was given a minor role in a movie titled Tell Bridge.

She has starred in movies like Summer Things, Dikkenek, Don’t Worry, I’m Fine, Eternity, Operation Finale, and Six Underground. Melanie has bagged many awards in her acting career including  César Award, Austin Film Critics Association Awards, and Lumières Award.

Melanie Laurent has a worth of $8 million.

5. Sophie Marceau

French actresses
Sophie Marceau

Although Sophie was born on 17 November 1966. She is well known for her roles in French films, although she has also starred in internationally acclaimed movies such as a Midsummer Night’s Dream and Braveheart. At the age of thirteen, she became successful due to her roles in two French comedies La Boum and La Boum 2 earned her a César Award for Most Promising Actress. She would later act in many more films including  Firelight and the 19th James Bond film The World Is Not Enough in 1999.

More than just an actress, Sophie Marceau is also a writer and director who has worked on films such as L’aube à l’envers, Speak to Me of Love, and Trivial. She has won a number of awards including the Montréal World Film Festival Grand Prix Special des Amériques and Goldene Kamera for Film International.

Marceau has a net worth of $50 million.

6. Eva Green

French actresses
Eva Green

This charming French actress became popular after her debut movie in 2003 titled The Dreamers. However, she became successful internationally in her movies such as Casino Royale and Kingdom of Heaven.

There are quite a number of French actresses that have played as Bond girls, Green is one. She was Bond girl Vesper Lynd in the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale which earned her a BAFTA Orange Rising Star Award as well as an Empire Awards for Best Female Newcomer. She also acted in some major films like Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and the drama series Penny Dreadful.

In 2007, she was ranked as the 6th sexiest movie star of all time by Empire magazine and was also ranked at 57 on the list of “after Ellen Hot 100”.

Eva Green has a net worth of $8 million.

7. Charlotte Gainsbourg

Charlotte Gainsbourg

The French Actress was born in London in 1979 to parents Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin. She got her first movie role at the age of twelve in the movie “Paroles et musique”. Having Gainsbourg as one of the very popular French actresses is not surprising as while her father was an actor, her mother was an actress and singer and her grandmother Judy Campbel is also an actress. She also has other members of her family in the entertainment.

She became popular with her role in the movie titled “L’Effrontee” and for her performance in the movie, she got a Cesar award for most promising actress. She has also starred in movies such as 21 Grams, Antichrist, Melacholio, and Nymphomaniac.

Charlotte Gainsbourg has a net worth of $8 million.

8. Brigitte Bardot

French actresses
Brigitte Bardot

The French Actress is seen as one of the sexiest actresses of the sixties and seventies. Also a singer, dancer, and model, Bardot was born on 28 September 1934. She began learning to dance when she was little and then she later began modeling. At the age of only 15, she appeared on the cover of Elle of 8 March 1950.

She made her acting debut in 1952 when she appeared in Le Trou Normand. Her role in the movie And God Created Women made her infamous in the movie industry. She is naturally beautiful, coupled with her high sense of fashion. She has starred in over 50 movies including Viva Maria!, La Vérité, and L’histoire très bonne et très joyeuse de Colinot Trousse-Chemise.

Bardot has a net worth of $65 million

9. Audrey Tautou

French actresses
Audrey Tautou

Audrey Justine Tautou was born on the 9th August 1976 in Beaumont, Puy-de-Dome, France. She is regarded as one of the sexiest and hottest French Actress. She started her acting career at the age of eighteen. In 1999, she got her first movie role in the feature film “Venus and beauty institute”.

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She won a Cesar award for the “most promising actress” in that movie. She started in movies such as Amelie (2001), dirty pretty things, the Vinci code, priceless, a very long engagement and Coco Avant channel. She has bagged many awards that include the European film awards, BAFTA awards and Cesar awards among others.

She is also one the highest paid actress in the world with a net worth of $20 million.

10. Laetitia Casta

Laetitia Casta

Laetitia initially started her career as a model. She became a very popular and important image in the modeling industry. She began her acting career at the end of the nineties with a role in “Asterix & Obelix take on Caesar movie, she later got roles in movies such as Les Aires Forte’s and La Jeune fille et Les loups. She was nominated in 2011 for an Oscar award for Gainsborough movie.

Laetitia Casta has a net worth of $12 million.

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